Niccolo Machiavelli Quotes
It is much better to tempt fortune where it can favor you than to see your certain ruin by not tempting it.
Citations
Machiavelli, Niccolò. Machiavelli and His Friends: Their Personal Correspondence. Translated by James B. Atkinson and David Sices, Northern Illinois University Press, 1996, p. 312.
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Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli was an Italian Renaissance diplomat, philosopher and writer, best known for The Prince (Il Principe), written in 1513. He has often been called the father of modern political philosophy and political science.